KNOWLEDGE USED IN COMMUNICATION


There are two kinds of Knowledges we use in the communication process: Social Knowledge and Cultural Knowledge


SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE



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Discourse script


Proxemic Knowledge


Semiotics:
  • Signs: as gestures, face....



Language
  • Fillers and conversational helpers
  • Turn taking
  • Silence/speech
  • Interruption/overlapping



CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE




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Theme interests and knowledge


Personal experience


Discourse schemata rules:
  • Coherence
  • Cohesion
  • Cooperation
  • Friendship


*Language (Social knowledge) and Discourse schemata and rules (Cultural knowledge) are joined.